Stuffs

Ello, ello.
Well, I'm thinking of closing one of my blogs (seeing as how I
have 3) and, actually blogging. For some reason I think I'm supposed
to talk about myself and my life on my blog... but I hate doing that
because I find myself so dammed boring. So from here on out the
subject will mostly be about photography since that is one of the few
topics I can talk about for days. I'll throw in an update on my life
here and there but really, who cares about that.
So, as a semi-last post, here is what's up. I just finished my
senior exhibition and was actually able to earn back what I'd spent on
supplies! Over all it went well, so many people showed up, there were
even a couple friends that came in from Dallas. Sadly I had little
time to visit/hamg with any friends since the fam was there :/ and had
a party planned for me.
This Saturday will mark the end of my career as an undergrad and
the start of... something. Kim got into the OU law program so I have
to find a job to support the two of us and a place to live (with 3
cats) really soon! I must say that I was worried about finding a job
in the Norman area but after a couple job offers in town and my
professors' advice I feel much more confident now.
Erm, I'm mildly hooked on iPhone photos. It has become the
(expensive ass) toy camera of my generation... I guess. There is
little control when taking the photo and editing capabilities are
rather minimal, so it tends to be of the moment AND is great when it
comes to instant gratification!
I leave with an iPhone pic.

ps the blogs I'll be keeping are my lj and the new-ish one
blog.hershelself.com

Maybe now?

>
> So here I am in Oklahoma visiting the fam & I have managed to
> download a few apps for blogging/Flickr on my phone but I still find
> the best way is to upload via the email. This is just another email
> test, not a real post yet btw. Well, I'll call it a half post... If
> only my phone had spell check!!!
>
> A little about the image: Kim and I drew this a week ago... :/ so
> much for my degree in finger painting.
>
> I have recently come to the conclusion that in order to successfully
> continue blogging I must post about things other than myself... but
> before I do that... I'm considering just letting my Flickr account
> run out, sadly I could use that $30 for something far more useful.
>
> So in the mean time I'm going to link all my blogs together, check
> out loud tweet(?), and find a way to post/share random photos on my
> own site instead of Flickr... we shall see.

Testing yet again

Say what?

Testing the uploadedness/randomousness

Testing

Gonna try and start blogging again, I have another blog for basic photo stuffs... I just want a place to post all the other random things I come across.

So again, this is just a test.

Lame

So tonight I spent a good 4 hours in the print studio, it was soo nice to get away from my computer. Don't get me wrong I loves
me some computer time, but after photoshop'n at work for 9 hrs to come home and work on my senior exhibition, ugh.
I forget, and quite often, how soothing drawing can be. Working in pen and having to work out problems before acting, ain't no command 'z' here.

Meh, time for bed.

ps I'm testing out a new app on the phone....

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Kablooy

Kablooy, originally uploaded by Hersh {razemyspirits}.

Yesterday Kim and I went over to the Honors House right as I got off of work for a BBQ. As usual there was good food but this time around there was a show to boot!

Liam is probably the most intelligent person I know, yet one subject we can relate on is blow'n shit up... while I prefer the modified firecracker, Liam sticks to chemicals.

Well, on a down note... I can't get my external hard drive to work... it was doing great two days ago, but now my computer can't read it and suggests I format the drive, ehck! I'm still looking for a recovery program and the CD that came with the drive might also have some useful software... If I can't get anything back though I will only be loosing two years of photos... LOL, crap, I've only been shooting for a little over two and a half years. Ok, so, I have eight months worth of photos if I do in fact lose all those files. There is some pretty cool stuff on there, but honestly I think my better stuff has been within the last eight months... pff, whatever, that is still two years of photos down the drain...

The BLOB Returns?

Heh, boy have I not posted in sometime.
This'll just be short, I'll do a real one tomorrow.
Cuz this is just a lil random...

So tonight, Kim and I were planning on going to an Old Testament Party (theme party) but decided to skip and just chill at the house, this is the first free weekend we've had in a while. Anyway, to get to my point, we decided to watch The Blob tonight, the 1950's version, the movie is just so damn'd cheesy! If you have never seen the 50's version (sorry to ruin it for those that haven't) you know that in the end the blob is sent to the arctic because it is vulnerable to cold temperatures...
It has been stated in the news recently that the north pole is melting, I really think the world governments should get together and resolve this current crisis... cuz the Blob WILL KILL EVERYONE if it thaws out!!!!! We shouldn't be concerned with global warming... I mean... it is a problem... but, I think the Blob is a more serious issue... although, if it were to kill of the the human race... I'm sure the earth would be a lot better off with all of us dead... hm.




I was born in the wrong decade...

not so hands on...

So, I don't think I've come to terms with being a "photographer" yet... especially since all my work is digital these days. I miss film, I miss the darkroom, I miss actually making something, as opposed to sitting on my ass staring at a computer for hours. Film is dying and I don't want it to. Curse me for loving something that revolves around technological advancements. Bleh.
Heheh, I'm done, my rants are so short lived.
I think as a gift to myself I'll purchase some of the tools required to have my own dark room from the school (somehowi'lldoit) since they don't use ANY of that stuff!




...and the smell of fresh chemicals at 3am...

"Thank you for calling..."

"...your 24 hour Walgreens, this is Hershel in Photo speaking, how may I help you."
(you bet your sweet little hide there is a smile in my voice)

So, as of a few weeks ago I am officially the "Head Photo Specialist" (that means a dollar pay raise and a metric s*** ton of responsibility).

I am in the process of cleaning out and re-organizing the photo lab, the place is such a mess. Whilst in the midst of beakers, chemicals, expired paper, tubes, buckets and corroded something or others my manager informs me that the lab hasn't been thoroughly cleaned/organized since she was the HPS (I think that was around 4 or more years ago). BUT! I am almost done, since I've been doing this sine the day they promoted me.

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This semester has gone by way too fast... the only things I really remember are going to school, and going to work... I'm pretty behind in most classes... mmm, yeah. Just checked. I am. This summer will be such a relief! Not being required to do anything but work is gonna be one heck of a vacation! (that is what it seems like now anyway) I'm not sure how I'll take to fall classes... bleh... school... bleh. I am definitely one of those people that college was not meant for, but by God I'm gonna finish!

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Just got a phone call from one of me boys, Mr. Morgan Victor Chesky, so I have totally lost my train of thought... if I had one to begin with.
It is nice to have good friends that no matter how long it has been since you last spoke, it seems as if you had just hung out yesterday.
The last time I did any sort of camping/backpacking was about three years ago with Morgan and two friends of ours... Big Bend National Park... it was a rather lax, I think it was only about 50 or so miles, in five or so days... hmm. I think I'm well past due for a week or more spent in the amazing outdoors. HAH! and now I can bring a flip'n camera!

Ok, back to doing what I should be doing... you can't tell me to go be productive (and have some goal in mind), cause I'll find something else to do (I can rarely make myself do what I should).

Dang it!

So... I dropped this a while back... the poor this is still not fixed! I broke it a week after I got my second flash and transmitters (boooo), so now I'm back to one flash... makes me sad. Today I will finally call Nikon as opposed to going through Wichita's local camera store.

we shall see... the Xenon tube busted I just need to buy a new one for 10 bucks and solder it back in.

On the up side (not sure if this will happen or not yet), I think Kim and I might be going to Maine.

and thus it has begun-ed

Today was a rather enriching day (especially for being my first day of classes). Today I only had two classes, on Thursday I will have three, consisting of photography and commercial art (and then a computer education course AKA microsoft word for five year olds - I'm going to kill myself in there). Both of the art classes are taught by the same teacher that I can't stand! This time around I do believe things will be different. The photography department has gone completely digital and upgraded to a room stocked with the G5 iMacs and Adobe Creative Suite 3. In photography class this morning my professor vowed to be less likable and more of a instructor/ass (which is funny because I like him as a person, but despise him as a professor). On top of this, as oppose to the normal 4-6 assignments we do per semester, the class will now be required to turn in around 10 completed photos every week (shit yeah!) along with the 4-6 main assignments.
When I got to my communication art class I was in fear of doing things in Photoshop that I had learned in high school... BUT, we will be strictly working in flash and dreamweaver!!!! So I won't be doing ALL the lame simple things other art students have been complaining about since the class had first been offered. I'm going to have to do a lot of reading up on the subject since I don't know shit about flash. This class is gonna be awesome... although I am knocking on wood at the moment so as not to jinx myself... :/
In other news... I think the macbook air come out today... what a waist of money! Mac is becoming what North Face has become to the wealthy.....

That is all I have to say about that.

oh really

Sooooooo tired!

Welp I will have been up a lil over 23 hours by the time I finish this thing. I was up all night and into the morning working on my final assignments that are due in my art classes. My grandmother passed away this Saturday morning... so I did nothing from Saturday on into Monday night... I thought I had a test in Economics on Monday so I contacted my professor but he never replied... I show up in class today only to find out that the test IS today... (if only he had written me back :/) so now I will be taking the make up test... from what he said it will be significanlty harder than the test that everyone else is taking today... lame. ok... my eyes are closing and it is time to get ready for my critique... I hope that it is short so I can take a nap... I"m not sure as to how I will get home, I don't think I can drive in this state. A nap in the car sure sounds nice!

English Usage Exam... its late, does this make sense?

OK, so...

   I am uncertain if this is just a requirement put on by my MWSU, or all universities, but when an undergraduate is in between sixty and ninety credit hours he/she is required to take the English Usage Exam. A little over a month ago I took part in fulfilling said requirement.

   Having not written a paper in well over a year I was quite fearful as to where I stood in terms of spelling, grammar, and all other things relating to the English language (should I really capitalize that?). Needless to say when I arrived and took a seat with the countless number of other students my palms did begin to sweat... just a little. I sat next to two friends, and fellow art majors(Linds & Joel), and just before I could ridicule Lindsay for using a regular #2 pencil instead of the far superior mechanical pencil that I found after rummaging through the trunk of my Volvo (is this a run on?) a professor proceeded to give instruction as to how we were to partake illustrious event. Immediately after her very brief an oh-so-informative speech she asked the question of all questions... "how many of you know what a thesis sentence is?" At first I was quite puzzled but raised my hand obediently (even though I'm sure the question was rhetorical in nature), and then gazed about the room at the sparse number of hands that were raised with mine in timid unison. At this point I began to relax as she went from this topic to how one should structure an essay... [scene fades: opens to me frantically proofreading the last paragraph of my paper; quick shot of the clock as it reaches 7:34 p.m.]

   Did I forget to mention I had every intention of meeting Kim for a 7:30 p.m. MWSU theater performance/production/rendition of Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" !!!! OH SHIT I'M LATE! After reading through my paper just once I head to the front of the room to check for spelling errors then I'm off to the back of the class room to exit. I'm in such a hurry that I disregard the "do not use as an exit" sign and my B-line to freedom is abruptly halted by the deafening "sckreeeeeeeeeeeeeAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaachhhhh!" of a ginormous lounge chair. Quickly I consider my options as I feel everyones' eyes are on my back, I reach for the door yet again only to be immediately detoured from my path by an "eh-hem" from the instructor. I smirk at her awkwardly and trudge my way to the other side of the testing room where I exit the proper way and accept defeat... woe is me.

   Now that I have made it out the only thing left for me to do is drop the paper off at the table outside the exit and sign out! "Did you forget to put a title on your paper?" are the first words out of the girl's mouth as I handed her my loose pages.

  "Oh crap, can I write it on there right quick?" I new full well that this was impossible since we were told once we leave nothing could be done to the paper, but I figured since she asked... maybe she would let me.

  "Well of course NOT."

  Well shit, thanks for pointing it out then! She could have saved me an entire month of stressing by just keeping her mouth shut, but nooooooo. She just had to point out the fact that I'd totally screwed up, and now there wasn't a damn'd thing I could do about it... what a bitch. "Oh, well... ok then. Bye."

Well...... I completely missed the entire first act of the play... meh. Kim said it was hella boring.

[one month later]

w00t! I freak'n passed! (for anyone who cares)

...and I'm sure there are plenty of grammatical errors in this journal and other entries that would actually keep me from passing the English Usage Exam... but I'll never know :D... unless someone decides to tell me... on my way out... :(

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So to take a short break from my loverly economics book I decided to edit some photos... then I started to take photos... and then I began to edit those. My short break turned from a half hour escapade (I do realize, to most, that the editing/taking of photos is not really all that enthralling) to, well, I won't go into just how much time I wasted. Is it just my A.D.D. or just the simple truth that taking/editing photos is sooo much more entertaining than economics. I'll take that back, just about everything is more interesting than economics. (when reading the book I do take some interest, but the class is a complete waste of time)

I think I need to update my browser :/

oh I did! 

Safari 3

I Can't Even Sleep Straight

I must say, I just had the most incredible weekend ever! I got to sleep in late 'till 9 in the morning, rushed off to be at work by 10! Saturday was free picture day, (thank the gods I volunteered myself, and camera, to take the photos) so every mom in a 5 mile radius brought there lil kid dressed up for Halloween to get his, her, it's photo taken. In actuality I can't really complain, taking photos was the easy part of that day, I had fun making facing at all of the kids, attempting to get them to laugh or smile, on the occasion that I remembered to do so I'd hand a a bit of candy or so. At 2pm when photos were through I went to check on my coworker Samantha, (she had been dealing with the ordering and printing half -3/4's really- of the job) and boy was she swamped! So I spent the rest of the day helping out in the photo lab and doing random shit around walgreens. As soon as my 9hr. shift was up I went home for an hour to eat and then was off to work on my metals project 'till bout 12:30am (a might bit early to call it quits).
This morning I had been comissioned (so to speak) to take Kristen's senior portraits. Kristen and I were out only a little over an hour before calling it quits and having lunch with Kim and the fam... whoosh! I'm off to work yet again! Tonight I ended up staying an hour late, we were so busy today I didn't get any of my regular duties done (face isles, sweep the store, trash, blah), so I ended up stay until 12am. Now I'm home... I a semi critique in photo, and a real critique in metals... solution I'm NOT going to photography tomorrow! But I will have my shit done for metal, boy that is for sure!

G'night all,
...just
...so
...tired
...


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Late to Bed, Early to Rise

Well it is almost 2 in the morning and I'm finishing up some photos from one of the lamest assignments I've ever received during my undergraduate career. Ever since an artist had her work exhibited in the university gallery my professor felt the class would benefit from copying her photographs. (note: I like the work, I just don't think that it is a good project) Each photograph is of a scene (not so much a scene I guess but... a diorama?) within a window. In most cases objects are set or hanging within the frame itself... damn, if only I could remember her name I could post some of her work, meh, oh well.

Truth is... I'm just bitching, I need to get over it, I'm an art major... I should be use to crap like this... but I must say, it would help greatly if we actually had a critique in that class, as oppose to the instructor just pointing out what he likes and dislikes about each piece. blah blah blah.

On a lighter/brighter note: there is a small chance I could become the photo manager at Walgreens! In all actuality though I am rather doubtful, everyone else that they have taken into consideration for the position has been there way longer than I have. I don't really know how great my chances are. Wish me well!
My bedroom is now 3/4 light purple, Kim's idea of course... but it does look totally badass, (purple & badass, hmm) I can't wait to hang something green on the walls, yeah-uh!

Enough, this bog cannot become completely pointless!
goodnight I say! goodnight!

Hup Hup short one

Damn, my weekend was pretty sweet, (except for the fact that Kim was sick that entire weekend, I don't know how she was able to handle car or show. At the concert she spent all her time flopped in a folding chair or doubled over her knees, so I was caught between taking photos and staying close to her... how stupid am I. She did get better eventually.) went home, caught up with the fam, ran into an old friend, and saw the Beatles (Mania) play at the Star in K-town. They put on a damn'd good show, even had three costume changes, stage, lights, good sound... now if anyone knows Kerrville, they know that is quite a bit!



Also, while I was in town I ran into an old friend, Steven Perry Creative Director, that I keep in touch with through our random blogging. He wasn't always know as Steven Perry Creative Director... once... once he was just Steven. I was only able to chat with him briefly before the performance started and then he had to get back to work, but it was a good chat all the same, next time I'm in town I'll have to buy him a drink. I tip my hat to you good sir, you put together a good show.

New, Improved... and yet unorganized still.

For whatever reason I feel the need to organize myself as of lately...
I am making an early new year's resolution... blogging and returning phone calls have been placed at the top. Don't ask.
So, for starters I will attempt to do everything with Google...


...aside from Flickr of course.